Lulu: My Glamorous Life: A Branches Book (Lotus Lane #3)

Author: Kyla May
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545496829
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The Lotus Lane Girls Club is the most fun club EVER! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!This third book in the series is written as Lulu's diary, with fun illustrations and doodles throughout. Lulu loves all things sparkly, adores her BFFs, and is a huge fan of her favorite actress, Penelope Glitter. Lulu enters a look-alike contest in the hopes of being able to attend Penelope Glitter's new movie premiere. Here are some items on her to-do list:Pack costume and makeupFreak outCalm DownMake it to the next round?!

Kiki: My Stylish Life: A Branches Book (Lotus Lane #1)

Author: Kyla May
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545496802
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Meet the Lotus Lane Girls! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Kiki, Coco, and Lulu are the BEST of friends. They even have their very own club! But Mika, the new girl, is shaking things up on Lotus Lane. This first book is written as Kiki's diary--with fun illustrations and doodles throughout. Kiki LOVES creating cool outfits, hanging out with friends, and cool collecting facts like these:Fact: I am a member of the Lotus Lane Girls Club. Fact: I will one day be a VERY famous fashion designer. Fact: My new neighbor Mika is trouble--triple trouble!Fact: Even chickens must look their best. Read Kiki's diary to find out all about life on Lotus Lane!

Coco: My Delicious Life: A Branches Book (Lotus Lane #2)

Author: Kyla May
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545496810
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Lotus Lane...where friendships bloom! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!The second book in this fresh new series features Coco. Coco LOVES hanging out with her friends, baking delicious cupcakes, and rescuing animals...like snails!?! The Lotus Lane Girls organize a cupcake sale to raise money for a veggie garden to help save the snails. Here are some posters Coco and her BFFs make for the bake sale:SLIME MAKES U SMILESNAILS FINISH THEIR VEGETABLESS.O.S (Save our Snails!)This book is written as Coco's diary--with fun illustrations and doodles throughout.

Mika: My New Life: A Branches Book (Lotus Lane #4)

Author: Kyla May
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 054549687X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The Lotus Lane Girls Club has a new member! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In this fourth book in the series, Kiki, Coco, and Lulu officially invite Mika to join the Lotus Lane Girls Club. The girls plan a surprise pajama party to welcome Mika to the club! Afterward though, Mika struggles to make time for all of the LLGC activities, Katy Krupski stirs up trouble (as usual!), and a new girl moves on to Lotus Lane!This book is written as Mika's diary, with fun illustrations and doodles throughout.

Mika

Author: Kyla May
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780545445191
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Japanese American Mika is the newest member of the Lotus Lane Girls, with her very own new diary, but she is still troubled by tensions between her different friends, and worried about her project for the school newspaper.

LEGO Friends: Lights, Camera, Girl Power! (Chapter Book #2)

Author: Cathy Hapka
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545766044
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
A full-color chapter book based on LEGO(R) Friends--a buildable play world for girls!Best friends Mia, Olivia, Emma, Andrea, and Stephanie can't want to enter the contest to be a guest on their favorite TV show,"Girl Power"! In order to win, each girl must capture the "heart" of their hometown, Heartlake City. May the best girl win!

The Billionaire's Apprentice

Author: Anita Raghavan
Publisher: Business Plus
ISBN: 1455504033
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until now... The collapse of the Galleon Group--a hedge fund that managed more than $7 billion in assets--from criminal charges of insider trading was a sensational case that pitted prosecutor Preet Bharara, himself the son of Indian immigrants, against the best and brightest of the South Asian business community. At the center of the case was self-described King of Kings, Galleon's founder Raj Rajaratnam, a Sri-Lankan-born, Wharton-educated billionaire. But the most shocking allegation was that the éminence grise of Indian business, Rajat Gupta, was Rajaratnam's accomplice and mole. If not for Gupta's nose-to-the-grindstone rise to head up McKinsey & Co and a position on the Goldman Sachs board, men like Rajaratnam would have never made it to the top of America's moneyed elite. Author Anita Raghavan criss-crosses the globe from Wall Street boardrooms to Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology as she uncovers the secrets of this subculture--an incredible tale of triumph, temptation and tragedy.

Habitually Chic

Author: Heather Clawson
Publisher: powerHouse Books
ISBN: 9781576876077
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Heather Clawson's wildly popular blog Habitually Chic collected the finer things in life: high fashion, fine art, interior design and arresting architecture. Now she narrows her vision in this stunning photographic collection that offers an intimate look into the workspaces of the world's foremost cultural generators. Clawson showcases the studious, workshops, offices and creative sanctuaries of cultural icons, including Jenna Lyons and Frank Muytjens of J. Crew, James de Givenchy of TAFFIN and potter Jonathan Adler, along with many more.

Paws for a Cause: A Branches Book (Diary of a Pug #3)

Author: Kyla May
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338530119
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
The third book in a sweet and funny Branches series about a pug and his human, told from the pug's POV! Pick a book. Grow a reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!When the local animal shelter can't afford new toys, it's up to Bub and his human, Bella, to save the day. But how could they possibly raise the money? A pet wash, of course! Fun and high jinks abound as Bella and Bub learn that running a pet wash is harder and wetter than it looks.With full-color artwork throughout, this funny and charming diary-format early chapter book is perfect for anyone who believes a furry pal is the best kind of friend.

An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

Author: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674072383
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 624

Book Description
During the past twenty years, the worldÕs most renowned critical theoristÑthe scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studiesÑhas experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient for interpreting the globalized present, she turns elsewhere to make her central argument: that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy. SpivakÕs unwillingness to sacrifice the ethical in the name of the aesthetic, or to sacrifice the aesthetic in grappling with the political, makes her task formidable. As she wrestles with these fraught relationships, she rewrites Friedrich SchillerÕs concept of play as double bind, reading Gregory Bateson with Gramsci as she negotiates Immanuel Kant, while in dialogue with her teacher Paul de Man. Among the concerns Spivak addresses is this: Are we ready to forfeit the wealth of the worldÕs languages in the name of global communication? ÒEven a good globalization (the failed dream of socialism) requires the uniformity which the diversity of mother-tongues must challenge,Ó Spivak writes. ÒThe tower of Babel is our refuge.Ó In essays on theory, translation, Marxism, gender, and world literature, and on writers such as Assia Djebar, J. M. Coetzee, and Rabindranath Tagore, Spivak argues for the social urgency of the humanities and renews the case for literary studies, imprisoned in the corporate university. ÒPerhaps,Ó she writes, Òthe literary can still do something.Ó